[twcho]

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You bid to 6♣ without opposed bidding. West lead a small spade. What is the best percentage line?

[rhm]

Terrible slam
Play a ♣ to the queen.
If no ♣ jack drops
Play ♥ ace and ruff a ♥ low
If the ♥ King drops draw trumps
Otherwise play a ♣ to the ♣ ten and ruff a heart with the ♣ ace
ruff a ♠ and draw trumps and run ♥

If ♣ jack drops run the ♥ jack if not covered because you can not afford more than one ruff in dummy.

If the slam comes home do not complain about hard luck for the next 3 months.

Rainer Herrmann

[nige1]

Deleted. Sorry I'm more asleep than usual today, I meant to post a single reply and edit it.

[nige1]

Deleted. Further grovelling apologies. I meant to edit this, but I posted the following reply by mistake.

[nige1]

twcho, on Sep 29 2009, 05:56 PM, said:

Dealer: ????? Vul: ???? Scoring: Unknown

♠ Axxxxx ♥   ♦ Kxx ♣ Axxx ♠ x ♥ AQJ98xx ♦ x ♣ KQ109

You bid to 6♣ without opposed bidding. West lead a small spade. What is the best percentage line?

Alternative to Rainer's line: ♠A, ♣Q, ruff finesse ♥Q, if that wins then ruff finesse ♥J,

• If RHO covers ♥Q or ♥J then ruff low, cash ♣A and draw trumps (hoping that ♥T drops in three).
  
• If both finesses win, then lead another ♥ and sniff the air.
  • If LHO follows with ♥K, then ruff low (sometimes losing when JLall is your LHO), cash ♣A, and draw trumps
    
  • If LHO follows low, then ruff with ♣A and finesse ♣T